Recent content by mistofeles

- Autocad doesn't work. I installed APM Graph LV and eMachineShops free CADprograms. - Mostly I have managed with WinXP device drivers in my environment. - My rather expensive dualhead video card works, but there is some funny problems. For example the DVD burner of Win7 doesn't work, because my...

" I really dig W7, just looks and feels right to me and it doesn't seem like there is all the extra crap of useless programs that Vista and earlier windows OS' seemed to be plagued with. just my opinion but its why i didn't like vista but love W7. " The Beta versions of W7 seem to be rather...

I have a 200MHz PC with 128 MB memory without a HD but with two CF cards. It runs Puppy Linux without a hitch. The system is on a CF card, so I can take it away and use Win 3.11 when needed. Win7 takes 7.62 GB, Win 311 about 32 MB. I find no good reason, why the OS should be so large. There was...

Cheers ;) a) My boss has about same feelings about the sittuation of backup with me. She is all the time trying to find better algorithms to spare disk space and make it cheaper for our customers. And make it more reliable and easier. b) My customers are going to build a special backup system...

New menu, suggestions I kinda like this new Start-menu. Except: - The name of the menu should be visible and not this 'windows flag in circle'. It is damned hard to describe to an user in the phone, what to do, when you dont have a explicit name for a thing. Some doesn't even know the word...

We do use some image programs, but they re used to build images of just built installations without data. My example case is a workgroup of about a dozen person. Everyone of them having data nearly 1TB. This might be too much for image programs. It is too much even for network systems. And it is...

There should be a backup system built in to the Win7 ! The original Backup/Restore is a disaster: - it is using aproprietary file format. Every version of MSDOS and Windows has had an incompatible file format. - it does not know what to backup We had some thinking: Normally an user creates max...

Second to that ! There is one great OS (IMHO). Namely eeeBuntu Base. It installs only the minimum of the OS and you can download all you need from the network when you need anything. This is how it should be. I don't mean FREE and PUBLIC DOMAIN downloads. I have downloaded maybe hundreds of...

Main menu -the most important thing in the world ? Please do forget the new menu of the BETA version ! This main menu is a minor thing. There is so much more important things in the new OS. If yo just keep on chewing this one thing, I get a feeling that you are purposefull trying to lead...

Start menu not important The start menu is not important. Discussion about old and new is only missleading the readers to forget that there is much more changes in other menus and configuration tools. - All the menus in Control panel have changed - Even the screen setup is different - network...

New menu is a minor change New START menu is a minor thing. Worse is that nearly everything else has been changed. For example changing this stupid 'Hide file extensions' took me 15 minutes and a lot of Googling. Chancing screen properties was another nuisance, as was chancing network...

Thanks, I got to check them. In the long run the system should work automatically. Oh my. I woke up in the morning and had a dream. I was dreaming somebody has started from a clean table and written a new OS, who has no roots in the CP/M and similar OSses of 197x. Built a directory structure...

It is nice to have something new and shiny every now and then. Play with all the bells and whistles for a moment. Then: back to work. In the long run I take all those eyecandies out and try to make the system run fast and clean. In the long run it is irritating to see windowses slide and change...

Makes life in IT interesting, huh ? Your customer buys a PC and asks you to install XP there. You have no way to know if it is one of the 80% or 20%. Then you spend some hours Googling for drivers on the PC brand name, then some hours with the mainboard brand, then with the chipset brand. You...

It seems that you have installed various Windows hundreds of times like I have done. Still, there is people, who doesn't do this daily. Some of them spend hours to make their PCs work. Hooray ! Great change ! The world has been saved ! ;) (I think they at last noted that those damned blankos...